Craft and StructureVery hardFunction of a parenthetical correction
Craft and Structure practice question
The garden's oldest tree, a mulberry (not, as the guidebook says, planted by the king, but by his gardener forty years later), still fruits every August.
Which choice best describes the function of the words in parentheses?
- A. They correct a claim made elsewhere without interrupting the description of the tree.Correct
- B. They describe the fruit.
- C. They praise the guidebook.
- D. They explain how to grow a mulberry.
Answer: A. They correct a claim made elsewhere without interrupting the description of the tree.
The guidebook's claim set right in passing.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. They describe the fruit.
- The fruit is outside the parentheses.
- C. They praise the guidebook.
- The guidebook is contradicted.
- D. They explain how to grow a mulberry.
- No instructions.
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